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TOWN FUNDS URGED TO SPUR PLANNING; Regional Association Finds Lack of Cash Hampering Boards for Post-War Work COUNTRY-WIDE AID ASKED Interdependence of the Various Sections Stressed in Plea for 'Realistic' Budgets

The metropolitan area, taking in New York City and seventeen other counties in New York State, New Jersey and Connecticut, is inadequately prepared to meet post-war problems and needs of the communities, the Regional Plan Association declared yesterday in a bulletin urging the towns to set up planning boards with authority and funds to act effectively.

April 24, 1944

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